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  • Redis Labs Raises $60 Million Series E Financing to Bring Instant Experiences Everywhere

    Francisco Partners Leads Round; David Golob and Eran Gorev Join Redis Labs Board of Directors

    Mountain View, Calif., February 19, 2019—Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, today announced it has raised $60 million in Series E financing led by a new investor, Francisco Partners, a leading global technology-focused private equity firm. The round included participation by the company’s existing investors, Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, Bain Capital Ventures, Viola Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. With this investment, Francisco Partners’ Chief Investment Officer David Golob will join the Redis Labs Board of Directors and Operating Partner Eran Gorev will join as a board observer.

    Redis Labs was founded in 2011 by Ofer Bengal (CEO) and Yiftach Shoolman (CTO) around the promise of open source Redis, to deliver instant experience to modern applications at any scale, by building their datasets with native data structures and serving their applications requests directly from memory. In July 2015, Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis, joined the company as leader of open source development. The company has now raised $146 million in total funding to-date. With these funds, the company plans to accelerate its global go-to- market execution, invest further in the enthusiastic Redis community, and continue its leadership in delivering the highest performing, most efficient database platform for modern applications.

    Redis Labs’ commercial product, Redis Enterprise, is the world’s fastest database, leveraging modern in-memory technologies such as NVMe and Persistent Memory to offer cost-effective deployment over multiple public clouds and on-premise data centers. Besides its native data structures, it features a variety of data modeling techniques, such as Streams, Graph, Document and Machine Learning, with a real-time search engine. The performance and flexibility of Redis has made it consistently one of the fastest-growing and most popular databases, including becoming the first to be launched more than one billion times on Docker Hub in 2018. Additionally, through strategic partnerships with Pivotal, Red Hat and others, the company has been able to drive further enterprise adoption and success with Redis Enterprise.

    “The impact of the Redis platform is being experienced everywhere as enterprises look to modernize or build new applications,” said Ofer Bengal, co-founder and CEO at Redis Labs. “This financing enables us to accelerate our strategy to deliver the fastest and most efficient database to the world and enable instant experiences for any modern application.”

    “Customers and partners alike tell us that Redis Labs has built the most robust and capable database solution for real-time computing across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments,” said Matt Spetzler, partner and co-Head of Europe at Francisco Partners. “We are thrilled to be partnering with Redis Labs’ team as the company scales up globally to meet the needs of the Internet economy.”

    About Redis Labs

    Modern businesses depend on the power of real-time data. With Redis Labs, organizations deliver instant experiences in a highly reliable and scalable manner. Redis Labs is the home of
    Redis, the world’s most popular in-memory database, and commercial provider of Redis Enterprise that delivers superior performance, matchless reliability and unparalleled flexibility for high-speed transactions, recommendation engines, data ingest, fraud mitigation, real-time indexing, session management and caching.

    Redis Labs, ranked as a leader in top analyst reports on NoSQL, in-memory databases, operational databases, and database-as-a-service, is trusted by seven Fortune 10 companies, three of the four credit card issuers, three of the top five communication companies, three of the top five healthcare companies, six of the top eight technology companies, and four of the top seven retailers.
    Redis has been voted the most loved database, rated the most popular database container, and #1 cloud database.

  • Mendix’s Hyper Growth Continued in 2018 with 150% Year-Over-Year U.S. Revenue Increase; Siemens Acquisition Marks Largest-Ever Investment in Low-Code Category

    142 new customers signed with major multinationals and government enterprises

    • Siemens US$730 million acquisition in October cements Mendix as global leader in low-code for the enterprise and opens major new market opportunities; Mendix’s brand and exec leadership continue under Siemens ‘freedom to operate’ model
    • Top analyst firms continue to position Mendix as low-code ‘Vision Leader’; Mendix furthest to right for “completeness of vision” in prestigious Gartner Magic Quadrant — underscores company’s market and technology position as the leading low-code platform for the enterprise, with first-to-market AI capabilities in 2018

     

    BOSTON – FEBRUARY 14, 2019 – Mendix, a Siemens company and the global leader in low-code for the enterprise, completed a banner year in 2018 with 142 major new customers, industry accolades, and continued record-breaking revenue.

    The year capped off with the closing of Mendix’s acquisition by Siemens AG in Q4, marking the single largest investment ever in the low-code category. Mendix continues to lead the category it invented – low-code, cloud-native application development that facilitates unprecedented collaboration between business stakeholders and development teams, enabling the rapid creation of the right applications to improve operational efficiency and accelerate revenue growth.

    Record revenues, again; customer growth and retention post extraordinary gains

    Mendix maintained its fast-track growth trajectory in 2018, highlighted by US revenue growth of 150 percent. The company added 142 major new logos, including Verizon, Ingersoll Rand, Zurich Insurance, Innovapost (the IT arm of CanadaPost), BAM Infra (the Netherlands’ leading infrastructure engineering and construction company), North Carolina State University, and other major global enterprises, national institutions, and government entities. The number of customers signing up for US$1 million-plus ARR commitments doubled; Mendix renewed a remarkable 95 percent of its existing customers; and more than 50 percent of its customers expanded their engagements.

    “In 2018, our customers continued to achieve real, substantial and measurable business outcomes with unprecedented speed and efficiency,” said Derek Roos, Founder and CEO at Mendix. “By implementing the Mendix platform, our customers enable significant new revenue opportunities and operational efficiencies. We look forward to seeing what they make with Mendix in 2019.”

    Siemens closes acquisition of Mendix in Q4 2018

    Siemens AG finalized its acquisition of Mendix in October for US$730 million in cash, with additional investment in R&D and market expansion. Under Siemens’ “freedom to operate” model, Mendix will maintain its name, executive leadership structure, staff, offices, and culture as a segment in Siemens’ Digital Factory division. The Mendix platform will also be deployed across other Siemens divisions, and access to Siemens’ customer base is expected to accelerate Mendix’s growth, further scaling and strengthening its market leadership across industries and geographies.

    Gartner “Leader” for second straight year; Glassdoor “best cloud company to work for,” again; plus, a trio of innovation awards

    Mendix continues to enjoy “leader” status in evaluations of low-code offerings by the leading IT analysts, as well as industry recognition. These results and accolades include:

    Mendix is first to offer AI-assisted low-code development, headlining new platform enhancements

    • Mendix Assist was the industry’s first AI-assisted low-code development capability that provides real-time next-step suggestions and expert quality, performance, and maintenance recommendations with 90% accuracy. By the end of 2018, nearly half of all microflows built in the Web Modeler were using MxAssist.
    • Mendix Nanoflowstook the visual modeling of application logic Mendix is known for and extended it to run on mobile devices and web browsers. Because nanoflows execute on the client side they run offline and enable the development of engaging and blazingly fast mobile apps.
    • Mendix introduced a seamless developer experience on the SAP Cloud by implementing SAP ID integration single sign-on and identity propagation for SAP on-premises and cloud services users. Many additional SAP integrations in 2018 enable SAP customers to leverage their investment and build enterprise mobile and web apps 10x faster with Mendix.
    • Mendix tightened its integration with IBM cloud and Watson by enabling seamless developer onboarding with IBM ID integration, 1-click deployment on IBM Cloud, and integrated billing. IBM developers can now build innovative low-code apps faster that provide valuable native integration to IBM’s Watson AI, IoT, and Blockchain.

    Eric Erston promoted to Chief Revenue Officer

    To manage its continued hyper growth in the enterprise and deliver a completely integrated and positive value chain from sales to customer success Mendix promoted Eric Erston, formerly SVP of North America sales, to the new position of chief revenue officer. As CRO Erston has responsibility for global sales and services, and the creation of the CRO role underscores Mendix’s deep commitment to deliver the best customer experience in the industry throughout the entire relationship, from a customer’s first app to becoming an application factory building and deploying hundreds of apps every year on Mendix.

    New Boston headquarters, new offices in Frankfurt and Rotterdam

    Mendix added 224 new hires in 2018, a nearly 100 percent increase, and anticipates total head count to grow significantly in 2019. To support this growth,  Mendix moved and expanded its Boston headquarters to the city’s dynamic and growing Seaport neighborhood in November. The new headquarters is a fivefold increase in space to 30,000 square feet designed as a high-productivity, high-interaction “tech hub” environment and sets the stage for Mendix’s expansion in Boston, capitalizing on the exceptional tech-centric talent pool there. Mendix also opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany, giving it a solid base for expansion in the DACH market, and proximity to Siemens.

    To accommodate its rapidly growing team in the Netherlands, Mendix moved into the award-winning De Rotterdam building, the largest building in the Netherlands, designed by world-famous architect Rem Koolhaas and his OMA studio. Mendix occupies the entire fifth floor of the building in Rotterdam’s rejuvenated old harbor district of Wilhelminapier.

    For more information about Mendix, please visit www.mendix.com.

  • DigitalOcean Launches Managed Databases

    New offering enables developers to deploy fully managed databases without administrative overhead

    New York City, NY; February 14, 2019 – DigitalOcean, the cloud for developing modern apps, today announced the launch of Managed Databases, with PostgreSQL as its first offering. The service will allow developers to create fully managed database instances in the cloud quickly and efficiently.

    With Managed Databases, developers no longer have to grapple with the many administrative tasks that accompany such deployments, or hire staff to manage them. Instead, DigitalOcean takes care of the setup, maintenance, configuration and security of databases, so developers can remain focused on creating great applications.

    “Our product development is driven by one vital question: How we empower developers to do more valuable work in less time,” said DigitalOcean’s Senior Vice President of Product Shiven Ramji. “With Managed Databases, developers and their teams can focus on creating meaningful applications and sharing them with their communities, without the headache of having to manage the database infrastructure that enables the process. We do this all with an intuitive interface, full API support, transparent pricing, feature richness and flexible scalability.”

    As one of the company’s first fully-managed offerings, Managed Databases represents another key step in the company’s mission of becoming the Developer Cloud of choice for building modern apps. The service was also one of the most widely requested new products among DigitalOcean’s customer base, showcasing immense need among developers to simplify the process of managing databases in the cloud.

    Managed Databases leverages DigitalOcean’s hallmark simplicity through the following features:

    • Worry-free setup & maintenance: Users can easily launch a database with the push of a button, completing a usually lengthy process in a matter of seconds. The managed service takes care of maintenance operations and updates, and provides developers with a single view of their databases through a simplified UI, powerful API or third-party Terraform provider.

    • Free daily backups with point-in-time recovery: Automated backups help prevent data loss and allow developers to restore data to any point within the previous seven days.

    • Standby nodes with automated failovers: In the event of a failure, Managed Databases will automatically switch data handling to a standby node to prevent against unplanned downtime.

    • End-to-end security: The service ensures all data is encrypted both at rest and in transit with SSL, and allows users to explicitly limit inbound connections based on their unique requirements. Additionally, all major upgrades and patches are handled automatically to avoid any service disruption and protect against potential vulnerabilities.

    • Scalable performance: Enterprise-class hardware and local SSD storage is combined with horizontal scaling to give developers the high performance they need. They can also monitor their clusters with minute-by-minute performance graphs and seamlessly scale databases and upgrade nodes as they grow.

    “Cloud managed databases represent the future of enterprise data management for most businesses,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president for Data Management Software research at IDC. “The best way for any enterprise to get the full benefits of cloud, with its elasticity and pay-as-you-go model is to have databases in the cloud running under managed services. DigitalOcean is specializing in such a service and is thus likely to offer expert service. They deserve active consideration by anyone considering locating a database workload in the cloud.”

    DigitalOcean’s Managed Databases offering for PostgreSQL is available now to all customers. Offerings for other popular database engines will be released throughout 2019. As an introductory promotional offer, all bandwidth fees for Managed Databases will be waived until 2020. Read more about pricing here: http://digitalocean.com/pricing/databases.

    Additional Resources

     

    About DigitalOcean

    DigitalOcean is the cloud of choice for developers around the world to create modern applications. With a community of more than 3.5 million developers and a global network of data centers, we focus on open source and simplicity to allow developers and their teams to spend more time on innovation instead of managing complex infrastructure. For more information, visit https://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean on Twitter.

  • Postman Announces Growing Adoption for API Development Tools

    Ranked highest for industry awareness, nearly six million developers and 200,000 companies now use Postman worldwide

     

    SAN FRANCISCO–January 23, 2019–Postman, the only complete API development environment, today announced that adoption of its award-winning API tool has reached nearly six million developers and more than 200,000 companies worldwide. Combined with the highest awareness among API developers, as measured by the company’s 2019 brand recognition survey, and key solution enhancements in 2018, this growth demonstrates Postman’s leadership in delivering a flexible, elegant tool for building connected software that supports developers across the entire API development lifecycle.

     

    In addition, Postman released the results of its new API Developer Brand Recognition survey. The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research and included  developers who spend at least 10 percent of their time working with APIs.  According to survey findings, the Postman brand came to mind first as offering API tools, platforms and/or solutions for 26 percent of respondents, outpacing companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and IBM, as well as all direct competitors where Postman also recorded an aided awareness of 82 percent.

     

    In 2018, Postman expanded the functionality of its app to address developer needs for more flexibility and customizability, keeping pace with the increasing demands of API development. It launched several key product enhancements in 2018:

     

    • Postman Workspaces delivers increased collaboration for both individuals and teams, and further upgrades allow private workspaces for enterprise users, helping to streamline project management for all Postman users while adding a level of security and confidentiality to team projects.

     

    • Postman Enterprise is built upon the rich features of Postman Pro, including Workspaces, that make organizing and managing multiple API development teams simple and secure in a plan specifically designed to address the additional security and support needs of enterprise customers.

     

    • Postman 6.2 introduced a new Team Plan for free users as well as an innovative Sessions capability which allows teams to work more effectively through the addition of session-specific collection, environment and global variables. Session variables stay local, allowing developers to work comfortably with sensitive information.

     

    Postman also released a new Templates feature in 2018 that allows API developers to create and share their code with anyone and most recently announced support for importing OpenAPI 3.0 specifications. These updates provide developers with more choices across formats and integrate Postman even more seamlessly into the API development workflow.

     

    “We’re living in an API-first world, and the pressure to increase development velocity while simultaneously improving release quality is higher than ever,” said Abhinav Asthana, Postman’s co-founder and CEO. “Postman delivers that combination, and has grown successfully in 2018 ― reaching  new user milestones, and  also doubling our workforce to further the momentum. When a blue-chip company enters the market naming us as the standard, we know we’re on the right path, and we plan to continue leading the way.”

     

    Rounding out the year’s accomplishments, Postman was a 2018 CODiE finalist for Best API Management Platform and named Best API Tool by StackShare. It also hosted the inaugural Postman conference, 2018 POST/CON in San Francisco, a sold-out gathering of API publishers, developers and experts that featured learnings, tutorials and industry perspectives.

     

    The new brand recognition survey also reported that 62 percent of developers use Postman . Additionally, 59 percent are likely to recommend Postman, positioning the app as the most used API dev environment and the most likely to be recommended. The Postman app includes all the features that support the API development lifecycle end-to-end ― from design and mock to debug, automated test, document, monitor, and publish. It is free at the individual and small-team usage levels. Postman offers paid plans to meet higher usage and enterprise functionality and security requirements.

     

    About Postman:

    Postman is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly six million developers and more than 200,000 companies worldwide. Postman is an elegant, flexible tool used to build connected software via APIs — quickly, easily and accurately. Postman is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at http://www.getpostman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @postmanclient.

  • Bitnami Offers Popular Application with Managed Database Configuration in Azure Marketplace

    Multi-tier Packages of WordPress and Drupal with Azure Database Services Remove Complexity of Deploying Enterprise Configurations

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA – January 15, 2018 —Bitnami, the leading provider of application packaging, is excited to announce the availability of WordPress and Drupal pre-configured with support for Azure Database for MariaDB in the Azure Marketplace. Bitnami has collaborated with the Azure Database Services team to deliver packages that make it much easier for companies to deploy enterprise configurations of these popular and widely used applications to Microsoft Azure.

    Deploying one of these new ‘Bitnami Certified’ application packages enables companies to realize the benefits of stability, security, and simplicity, while harnessing the power of a fully managed Azure database. The result is the ability to scale quickly and reach global distribution without worrying about costly downtime.

    “The new Bitnami packages significantly improves enterprise productivity by reducing the effort involved in packaging and deploying complex multi-tier architectures, while offering guaranteed high-availability, security, and dynamic scale with Azure OSS Database services” said Sudhakar Sannakkayala, General Manager, Azure Data engineering. “Our customers can now simply scroll through the Azure Marketplace, select an offering, and click ‘launch’ to deploy one of these applications.”

    “Bitnami has worked with the Azure Database team to create packages that deliver the reliability, security and ease of use of Bitnami Certified applications and the flexibility and power of Azure,” said Bitnami Vice President of Business Development and Sales Pete Catalanello. “Because Bitnami optimizes packaging for Azure, it is easy to utilize platform services such as databases, auto-scaling, and load-balancing. The combination of Bitnami and Azure delivers what customers say they care about most.”

    A long-term Microsoft partner, Bitnami provides a wide range of pre-packaged, easy to deploy open-source applications and development stacks to the Azure Marketplace. It supports Microsoft enterprise customers in multi-tier environments in numerous ways, and actively works with the Azure Database team to provide enterprise solutions and promote best practices. Other multi-tier Bitnami solutions for Azure include:

    • Stacksmith, which enables enterprises to package their own multi-tier applications for Azure and AKS. Users can define best practices once and enforce them when packaging and updating. This includes configuration requirements for the use of Azure Databases for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
    • Kubeapps, an open-source web-based interface for discovering and provisioning applications on a Kubernetes cluster. Microsoft has partnered with Bitnami to integrate Kubeapps with Open Service Broker for Azure. With Kubeapps, users can create and present Helm charts that leverage Azure-native PaaS services as part of the architecture.

    With this combination, a user could deploy an application tier on AKS and an Azure Database backend to achieve a highly-scalable application with a highly available database. They could then use Stacksmith to maintain and update these applications with their PaaS service integrations going forward.

    Bitnami continues to expand the scope and number of enterprise solutions to make it ever easier for users to set up and deploy complex environments that leverage first party Azure services. For a closer look at these multi-tier enterprise solutions, register for the Create an Application-Centric DevOps Experience with Stacksmith and Azure OSS Database Services webinar. To access the new WordPress or Drupal packages, visit the Azure Marketplace.

    About Bitnami

    Bitnami provides packaged applications for any platform. The Bitnami application automation platform delivers and maintains a catalog of 130+ ready-to-run server applications and development environments in partnership with the world’s leading cloud providers including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, driving over 1.3 million deployments per month. Bitnami is helping to shape the future of software deployment via its leadership role in the evolution of the Kubernetes ecosystem, including being the authors and maintainers of Kubeless and Kubeapps projects and major contributors to helm. Based in San Francisco and with offices around the world, Bitnami is a privately held, rapidly growing company. For more information, visit https://www.bitnami.com, or follow us on Twitter (@Bitnami) and Facebook.

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  • Redis Delivers the Fastest Multi-Model Database on Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory

    Redis Enterprise Provides Developer Flexibility to Process Massive Data Sets Quickly and Affordably

    Mountain View, Calif., January 10, 2019—Redis, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, announced today that Redis Enterprise is now available for Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory across multiple cloud services or as downloadable software for supported hardware from companies participating in Intel’s hardware beta program.

    Redis Enterprise gives developers the flexibility to choose between the two modes of operation offered by Intel Optane DC persistent memory. Using Memory Mode, Redis Enterprise-powered applications can achieve comparable performance to DRAM with significant cost benefits. Developers can achieve even greater cost savings using AppDirect mode with Redis Enterprise, while still delivering significantly faster performance compared to NVMe.

    The combination of Redis Enterprise and Intel Optane DC persistent memory enables customers to scale to multi-terabytes of data at a much more attractive price point than alternate solutions. Redis Enterprise’s multi-model capabilities which encompass core data-structures (including the new Redis Streams) and modules (ReJSON, RedisGraph, and RediSearch) all perform at a sub-millisecond response time for any operation with persistent memory. Additionally, Redis Enterprise can be deployed in an active-active (CRDT-based) manner across geo-regions, while keeping a similar cost structure of much slower databases.

    “We’ve worked closely with Intel’s engineering teams to address real-world challenges we see across more than 750,000 Redis Enterprise databases under our management,” said Yiftach Shoolman, co-founder and CTO at Redis. “Traditionally, Redis users have split their dataset across multiple databases to avoid the relatively high deployment cost associated with high memory (DRAM) capacity servers. Redis Enterprise in combination with Intel Optane DC persistent memory allows developers to simplify their database deployment by keeping the entire dataset in a single multi-model database—Redis—and keep the cost structure similar to disk-based databases, while enjoying sub-millisecond response time at any scale for simple and complex use cases.”

    “Intel and Redis have collaborated in the development of next-generation memory technologies beginning with NVMe to persistent memory today,” said Alper Ilkbahar, Vice President and General Manager, Datacenter Memory and Storage Solutions at Intel. “With their deep technical knowledge of customers’ high-performance data tier architecture, Redis has optimized Redis Enterprise to leverage the benefits of Intel Optane DC persistent memory to meet the needs of our customers.”

    Additional Resources

    For more information about the collaboration between the companies and how persistent memory will transform the database market please visit here.

    Please contact support@redis.com for questions about Redis Enterprise availability on Intel Optane DC persistent memory.

    About Redis

    Modern businesses depend on the power of real-time data. With Redis, organizations deliver instant experiences in a highly reliable and scalable manner. Redisis the home of Redis, the world’s most popular in-memory database, and commercial provider of Redis Enterprise that delivers superior performance, matchless reliability and unparalleled flexibility for personalization, machine learning, IoT, search, ecommerce, social and metering solutions worldwide.

    Redis, ranked as a leader in top analyst reports on NoSQL, in-memory databases, operational databases, and database-as-a-service, is trusted by seven Fortune 10 companies, three of the four credit card issuers, three of the top five communication companies, three of the top five healthcare companies, six of the top eight technology companies, and four of the top seven retailers.

    Redis has been voted the most loved database, rated the most popular database container, and #1 cloud database.

  • IBM Earns Record 9,100 Patents in 2018, Tops U.S. Patent List

    IBM’s inventions include use of AI to help people converse, protect the earth’s lakes and combat voice phishing

    ARMONK, N.Y. – 8 Jan 2019: IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors received a record 9,100 patents in 2018, marking the company’s 26th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. IBM led the industry in the number of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, security and quantum computing-related patent grants.

    “IBM is committed to leading the way on the technologies that change the way the world works – and solving problems many people have not even thought of yet,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and CEO. “Our clients and their customers are the beneficiaries of these innovations, particularly our leadership in AI, cloud, blockchain and security for business.”

    Overall, nearly half of the 2018 patents relate to pioneering advancements in AI, cloud computing, security, blockchain and quantum computing.

    The industry-leading 1,600 AI patents IBM inventors were granted in 2018 include new ways to use AI to help us converse and protect the earth’s lakes and waterways. AI also played a large role in the more than 1,400 security patents IBM inventors were granted in 2018, including an AI-powered security approach to combat voice phishing.

    Some IBM patents granted in 2018 include:

    • Project Debater is a first-of-a-kind AI system from IBM Research that can debate humans on complex topics. IBM inventors patented an approach to use machine learning to identify evidence, such as relevant text segments in unstructured text data, which supports or opposes a claim or topic under consideration. This could help provide advancements in how machines and humans interact in conversation.
    • IBM inventors patented an intelligent system that could be used to identify, characterize, and monitor vertical temperature profiles and gradients, which affect marine life, in lakes and other aquatic ecosystems. Analytics combined with the IBM Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) mapping has helped IBM along with collaborators to engineer the world’s smartest lake, Lake George.
    • “Phishing” occurs when a person or computer system tries to obtain sensitive information from unknowing victims. Most recently, phishers have turned to voice phishing, or “vishing,” in which unsuspecting victims are called directly and “vishers” use a voice over IP (VoIP) system to mask their identity. IBM has patented an AI system that could, with permission from the primary user, analyze conversation patterns between two parties in order to identify attempts by one of the parties to deceive the other. The system could send an alert message in real-time to warn a potential vishing victim and help company IT experts better prevent and manage computer and mobile security threats.

    IBM inventors received more than 2,000 cloud computing patents in 2018, including a patent on a specialized monitor for unikernel-based virtual machines that takes a lightweight approach to improving isolation and security between a cloud application and its host, while also reducing provisioning times and improving performance. The approach is related to IBM’s research in container security and could enable organizations to more easily move data and applications securely across cloud and on- premises environments.

    IBM inventors also continue to break ground in the development of blockchain and its rapid pace of global adoption. IBM was granted a patent on an approach for encrypting data stored in a blockchain. Members of a blockchain network can put data on a blockchain that they would like to share with other blockchain network members.

    However, instead of storing the data openly for any of the blockchain participants to see, members can encrypt their data within the blockchain and only those that have been given a decryption key can read the data. IBM has enabled this patented capability to users of the open source Hyperledger Fabric.

    IBM researchers also patented significant inventions in quantum computing, including a new way of miniaturizing components to improve the performance of quantum computers.
    The new patents were granted to a diverse group of more than 8,500 IBM inventors in 47 different U.S. states and 48 countries.

    For more information about IBM’s patent and innovation leadership, see www.research.ibm.com/patents/

    * 2018 patent data sourced from IFI CLAIMS Patent Services: http://www.ificlaims.com

  • Aerospike Delivers the First Commercially Available Open Database Optimized for Intel® OptaneTM DC Persistent Memory

    New Aerospike 4.5 release gives enterprises unmatched scale, performance and consistency

    Mountain View, Calif., Dec. 13, 2018 – Aerospike Inc., the developer of the world’s most trusted and reliable enterprise-grade non-relational database, today announced general availability of Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 optimized for Intel® OptaneTM DC persistent memory.

    Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 is the first commercially available open database, supporting both traditional DRAM memory and new Intel Optane DC persistent memory, a new class of memory and storage technology architected specifically for data-intensive applications that require extremely low-latency, high durability and strong data consistency.

    Aerospike’s open database architecture means that it natively supports a wide variety of enterprise application environments, supporting Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Go and other commonly used programming languages. Intel Optane DC persistent memory is currently available in beta from multiple cloud service providers and hardware vendors, giving companies the flexibility to run the Aerospike database in the cloud, on premises or both.

    “Aerospike powers high-scale, real-time machine learning-based applications at many of the world’s industry leading enterprises today,” said John Dillon, CEO of Aerospike. “Adding support for Intel Optane DC persistent memory into our existing storage hierarchy gives our customers greater flexibility to develop and deliver mission-critical, strategic operational applications at the edge, on premises or in the cloud.”

    Intel’s groundbreaking persistent memory technology provides better total cost of ownership, capacity, native persistence, and a higher level of performance at commensurate levels of scale. Aerospike worked with Intel to architect and validate its database performance on this new memory tier.
    The combination of persistence with highly parallel access to other tiers of storage becomes an architectural breakthrough for both high performance and scale. For example, for planned restarts of a NoSQL in-memory database using Aerospike Hybrid Memory Architecture, Intel Optane DC persistent memory provides a minutes-to-seconds restart speedup compared to DRAM-only cold restart.

    “Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a groundbreaking technology that helps customers deliver mission-critical, data-intensive applications at scale,” said Alper Ilkbahar, vice president and general manager of the non-volatile Memory and Storage Solutions Group at Intel. “Aerospike 4.5 is an important milestone as the industry readies for general availability of Intel’s new persistent memory technology.” Aerospike demonstrated this groundbreaking technology earlier this year, showcasing performance that meets and sometimes exceeds expectations of DRAM-only databases.

    Aerospike’s patented hybrid memory database implements specific optimizations for both highly parallel DRAM and high-density NAND. Extending Aerospike support for persistent memory enables enterprises to reap additional benefits for a wide variety of machine learning-based applications where traditional in-memory database technology alone does not provide needed performance and scale.

    “Adding support for Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a natural evolution of our product strategy to optimize Aerospike for multiple storage tiers,” said Brian Bulkowski, co-founder and CTO of Aerospike. “Extending the class of device tiers that Aerospike supports gives enterprises unmatched flexibility on how best to architect their data infrastructure for mission- critical applications that at a rack level and beyond may need to scale to hundreds of terabyte or more.”

    Intel Optane DC persistent memory’s significant density improvement (up to 512 GB per module) compared to DRAM (currently limited to 128 GB per DIMM) combined with Aerospike’s hybrid memory’s density advantage of 10x compared to traditional NoSQL databases can deliver a massive combined scale improvement with negligible performance impact. release of Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 follows the recent 4.3 product release which extended Aerospike’s support for In-Memory and Hybrid Memory with all-Flash-based storage, enabling enterprises to support petabyte-scale database implementations.

    Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 is generally available now.

    Additional Resources:
    Aerospike Database Platform
    Aerospike Customers
    Aerospike Resources
    Gartner Peer Insights
    Video: Aerospike on Intel Persistent Memory
    About Aerospike

    Aerospike is trusted by leading enterprises around the world to help them build and deploy modern data architecture solutions with confidence. The Aerospike enterprise-grade non-
    relational database helps companies power mission critical, strategic operational applications that make digital transformation possible. Powered by a patented Hybrid Memory ArchitectureTM and autonomic cluster management, Aerospike is used by enterprises in the financial services, telecommunications, technology, retail, e-commerce, adtech, and online gaming industries and is well-suited for fraud prevention, digital payments, recommendation engines, real-time bidding and other applications that require extreme uptime, performance and scale. Aerospike customers include Adobe, Airtel, FlipKart, Kayak, Nielsen, and Snap. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

  • Datadog and Aqua Security Partner to Provide Seamless Visibility into Container-Based Application Security

    Aqua integrates with Datadog to give DevOps teams real-time security metrics and events

    Seattle, WA –December 11, 2018 – KubeCon/CloudNativeCon – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, today announced
    the integration of its platform with Datadog’s cloud monitoring and analytics platform. With this integration, Aqua provides real-time visibility into the security posture of cloud native applications to Datadog users, including information on vulnerable images, untrusted running containers, and security anomalies found by Aqua in the runtime environment.

    For DevOps teams that continuously monitor applications for operational parameters such as performance, bug tracking, and errors, security events are often a blind spot that is handled
    elsewhere although they may directly affect application uptime and resiliency. The integration of Aqua’s granular security information into Datadog’s comprehensive monitoring makes it possible to identify issues quickly and analyze their impact on application availability.
    As organizations shift to more dynamic infrastructure through cloud and container technologies, communication between application and security teams is more important than ever,” said Ilan Rabinovitch, VP Product and Community at Datadog. “By combining Datadog’s deep insights into containerized application performance with Aqua Security’s enforcement of
    security best practices, we are helping organizations bridge the gap between these traditionally siloed teams.

    The integration between Datadog and Aqua CSP features pre-built Datadog dashboards that display:
    – Container images currently in Aqua’s scan queue
    – Known vulnerabilities and security issues found in existing images
    – Containers running from unauthorized images
    – Aqua runtime policy violations and audit events

    Additionally, Datadog users can use the data provided in the Aqua dashboards to set up theirown alerts, aggregate data streams from different applications, and customize how data is
    displayed.
    “We are excited to be partnering with Datadog to deliver a more complete security view to DevOps teams,” said Amir Jerbi, CTO and co-founder of Aqua Security. “In the cloud native era, ensuring security can no longer the exclusive burden of security teams, and instead should be part of the overall operational soundness of applications throughout their lifecycle. Our integration with Datadog creates a valuable shortcut that allows security issues to be detected early and fixed quickly, preventing escalated security incidents in production.”

    About Aqua Security
    Aqua Security enables enterprises to secure their container and cloud-native applications from development to production, accelerating application deployment and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security. Aqua’s Container Security Platform provides full visibility into container activity, allowing organizations to detect and prevent suspicious activity and attacks in real
    time. Integrated with container lifecycle and orchestration tools, the Aqua platform provides transparent, automated security while helping to enforce policy and simplify regulatory
    compliance. Aqua was founded in 2015 and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft Ventures, TLV Partners, and IT security leaders, and is based in Israel and Boston, MA.

    For more information, visit www.aquasec.com or follow us on twitter.com/AquaSecTeam

    About Datadog
    Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. These capabilities are provided on a SaaS-based data analytics platform that enables Dev, Ops and other teams to accelerate go-to-market efforts, ensure application uptime, and successfully complete digital transformation initiatives. Since launching in 2010, Datadog has been adopted by more than 9,000 enterprises including companies like Activision,
    AT&T, Deloitte, Peloton, Samsung, Seamless, The Washington Post, T-Mobile, Turner Broadcasting, and Whole Foods.

  • Instana Extends Leading Kubernetes Monitoring Solution to Better Serve Developer Community

    Company’s Latest Release Provides Quickest and Easiest Developer Visibility of Kubernetes Application and System Performance

    Seattle at KubeCon – December 11, 2018 – Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the application layer, today announced further enhancements to the company’s automatic application monitoring solution for containerized applications. The new capabilities center around Instana’s Application Perspectives, a unique way to group and analyze all performance metrics and traces from specific application components.

    “While Kubernetes-based orchestration allows DevOps to keep applications operating properly most of the time, it’s quite challenging to understand what is happening,” said Pete Abrams, Instana co-founder and COO. “To help developers quickly and easily understand how their application code is behaving within a Kubernetes environment, Instana has connected Kubernetes and Kubernetes Service monitoring directly to application performance metrics and traces. This happens completely automatically.”

    Instana continues to make headlines at KubeCon conferences. Last December, in conjunction with KubeCon in Austin, Instana announced the expansion of their automatic application monitoring solution to include any applications running in Kubernetes or on Kubernetes services such as Oracle OKE and Google GKE. In May, at KubeCon in Copenhagen, the company announced the ability to correlate application performance metrics and traces with Kubernetes system metrics – becoming the first solution to monitoring Kubernetes, itself, from an application perspective.

    Instana’s Application Perspectives changes the way in which IT organizations, especially development teams, use APM solutions for monitoring and troubleshooting their distributed microservice applications. Using operational tags or allowing real-time ad hoc definitions, Instana’s Application Perspectives gather all the metrics and traces that are related to specific applications, filtering out the noise from other distributed systems.

    “DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers are important, but they aren’t the only application performance stakeholders,” Abrams continued. “Developers are also involved in performance tuning and troubleshooting containerized microservice applications. That’s why Instana has created an entire User Experience specifically for the developer community.”

    Instana’s automatic APM solution for dynamic applications is unique in its ability to automate every step of the application monitoring lifecycle, from monitoring deployment to application discovery and monitoring. The company continues to shake up the monitoring industry by automatically consuming any source of performance and tracing information, including popular open source solutions like Jaeger and Zipkin. Like other Instana APM capabilities, the new Kubernetes monitoring occurs automatically, making it the quickest and easiest way to monitor Kubernetes applications and assure their performance.